The features of gimp 2.8 is confirmed. Great freatures like Single Window Mode, On canvas editing, Rotating Brushes are included in the dev version 2.7.1 . Gimp 2.8 beta is expected after christmas of 2010. Here is a list of features in http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-8-new-features.html 1 Finally here: layer groups! It’s now possible to group layers into…